PREFACE. Xlll 



daily misunderstood, even in their most simple 

 parts. 



If I am occasionally a little censorius, re- 

 member, this is the best mode of impressing 

 things on the memory ; and if you are of opi- 

 nion that the contents are very generally known, 

 I can only say, that it is a great pity they are 

 not more generally practised : at the same time, 

 I may inform you, this is not written for those 

 who do know, but for those who do not, so that 

 for the future we may all start even- 



I beg one favour that you will not be so 

 inconsistent as to deride the contents of this 

 little treatise, and at the same time adopt the 

 precepts it contains ; and moreover, if you do, 

 take care you never invite me to inspect your 

 stud, or I will " show up" more faults in each 

 horse than you thought existed in the whole of 

 the Bomb Proof. 



To enable you, condescending reader, who 

 may read for instruction, to purchase a casty, 

 sound, and useful Arab ; to keep him in con- 

 dition always fit for work ; to take your gallop 

 out of him without injury, or to bring him on 



